What DVD have you just watched?

Compared to music listening, during which only rarely do I go sleep in, why do films put me to sleep more than half the time?

Fredrik

I watched Terence Malik's New World at the weekend - absolutely compelling narrative and fantastic sound

Lilja 4-ever...yesterday

"Deja Vu" with Denzel Washington. As I happen to be fascinated with the concept of time travel it was a movie for my tastes!

JohanR

Currently watching Roseanne series 1. Bought it for £5.99 from my local co-op. Bargain for 23 episodes. On second thoughts, perhaps i need to get out more.

"Deja vu" followed by "Blood diamond" both worth watching, both for different reasons

An oldie from 1965 with Jack Lemmon and Terry-Thomas called "How to murder your wife". Jack Lemmon wakes up after a heavy drinking party to find that he suddenly is married! Female leading role is by a VERY good locking Virna Lisi. Quite fun but in the end it gets a bit strange.

JohanR

Taxi 3.

Loved it.

Good fun silly romp. poor ending though.

We finished Series 3 of "24" at the weekend. Difficult to watch just one episode at a sitting!

Ashanti - Michael Caine, Omar Sharif and Peter Ustinov.
Not bad - a newspaper freebie

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
We finished Series 3 of "24" at the weekend. Difficult to watch just one episode at a sitting!

I'm not generally a fan of American programs but "24"'s just so incredibly addictive!

We don't bother watching it when it's on TV, just buy the complete series on DVD. That way you miss the adverts & each episode's about 45 minutes long.

It's late in the evening, past bedtime. You get to the end of an episode which invariably ends on a cliffhanger:
"yes, s*d it, let's watch another!"

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Originally posted by Analogue:
Ashanti - Michael Caine, Omar Sharif and Peter Ustinov.
Not bad - a newspaper freebie

And Mrs Caine

Zwartboek by Paul Verhoeven.
Liked it but at times I felt like I shouldn't; the production felt a bit too 'lavish' for a film of this type.

Icon- Patrick Swayze.
Another very good newspaper freebie.

Magnolia

Friends With Money. Good, astute portrayal of the middle classes and their relatively 'minor' troubles. Well wrtten and very well acted by the excellent cast.

Watched Peep Show series 1+2 over the last couple of nights.

and watched Freeway today.

We were up until 1.30 this morning finishing series 4 of "24". Hugely gripping stuff. Now awaiting the release of series 6 on dvd!

The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Peter Cushing - Holmes, Christopher Lee - Sir Henry Baskerville.
Hammer production. OK, but I always find it distracting when script writers depart from the original storyline for no good reason.

Billion Dollar Brain.
Michael Caine - 'Arry Palmer.
It's funny how many people love the edge of the Sean Connery Bonds but fail to appreciate the influence of Harry Saltzman - who also produced the Harry Palmer films. In many ways I prefer these films, whilst still ridiculously far fetched they also feel very gritty and grounded.

Started watching 24 season 2 today.

Watched peep show series 3 last night while getting boozed up. Funny as f@£k

Watched "Pirates of the Carribean - Dead Man's Chest" for the first time since its release in the cinema last year. Better than I remembered actually, much better, although the ending was obviously a bit of a let-down given it sets you up for the next episode and leaves everyone in the proverbial lurch...

Hide the Rum.

I watched the first ten minutes of "The Wooden Horse" earlier. In fairness I was not in the mood, and reverted to music...

There is a personal story attached to this for me. Eric Williams wrote a short book about this, which appeared very soon after he got back to England having escaped from a POW camp, but naturally there were sensitive issues regarding security and the necessary secrecy. This film was based on that book, and subsequently Williams re-wrote the book calling it the "Wooden Horse." By then it could be a fully realised telling of a true story of three men escaping via a tunnel from a POW camp.

The man called Phil in the tale was actually Oliver Philpot who was taught English at Prep school by the father of the man who taught me English at the same school forty years later. I was acquainted with the story from Philpot’s angle as a ten year old. I bought a copy of Philpot’s reporting of "his version" called, "Stolen Journey," which in my view is the more gripping tale. I gave the book to my grandfather [resistance leader in Norway] who thought it one of the best books he had read in the line. Sadly it would take some finding today, or be expensive. Philpot was a loner and made a convincing plan [successful as it happened] to pass himself off as a Margarine supplies man working in Germany as he made his way north to Stetin and Sweden...

The other DVD I bought today will now not be seen by me. "Enigma." I was aware of the great significance of the Polish contribution to the code breaking at Bletchley Park. This film falsely depicts one of them as a German spy [as unlikely as that sounds given the real historical events]. Too bad. This kind of false popularising revisionism in filmmaking is to be deplored as beneath contempt. I am very cross that such nonsense can still go on. As the film, "The Heroes of Telemark" should, this film should start with a warning about its false representation of the historical facts...

ATB from Fredrik